SHORTCOMINGS OF OUR AGRICULTURE. 45 



tainly did a measured amount of good to Agriculture, 

 greatly extending above all things organisation, but good 

 rather in respect of quantity than of quality. His organi- 

 sation, unlike competing organisations, is altogether depen- 

 dent upon State aid and could not continue without it. 

 But there is no denying the utility of Provincial Chambers 

 of Agriculture. However, all the good practically accom- 

 plished was only the outcome of foundations previously 

 laid. It was Education and Organisation which carried 

 German Agriculture to the high point which it now occupies. 

 But the Emperor's policy of stimulating with palm oil has 

 accompHshed one great thing which must be precious indeed 

 in its author's eyes. It has put the entire rural community 

 — with very few exceptions — into Prussian uniform, stand- 

 ing at attention, awaiting his command, with a spiked 

 helmet on its head and a sword, ready to be drawn, at its 

 side — ready for battle with " John Bull and the French- 

 man." as Herr Haas's Union has elegantly and suggestively 

 put it in a song rendered " with deafening applause " 

 under the Presidency of the son of our Princess Alice, 

 at a Jubilee Congress — a song in which " mad staggers " 

 in despair at German greatness and prosperity are imputed 

 to us, and the declaration is added that Germany can snap 

 her fingers at us angry neighbours, since she has the uncon- 

 querable Hohenzollern as her head.^ With the help of 



1 This occurred at the Jubilee Congress of the " Imperial Union," 

 at Mayencein 1908, when the Grand Duke of Hesse was in the chair. 

 The precise words of the song are these : 



" Zum Kampf nach draussen mogen drum 

 John Bull und Franzmann koUern ; 

 Das ficht uns nichts so lang regiert 

 Wilhelm von Hohenzollern. 



" Den Hahn in Ruh' ! Die Flinte blank ! 

 Lasst nie die Schwerter rosten. 

 Kein Kampfgeschrei ! Doch wenn es gilt, 

 Seid Alle auf dem Posten ! " 



This doggerel and the manner in which it was used are thoroughly 

 characteristic of the way in which the population of Germany has 

 been for years back systematically^ worked up, under Government 

 inspiration, into a settled hatred of England and France, but more 

 particularly of England, in the beUef— confirmed by frequent 

 repetition, on all, even the most unsuitable, occasions — that those 

 two countries, being bitterly envious of Germany on account of her 



